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For the last two days we have been sailing from Papua New Guinea to Palau. The seas have been fairly calm but with large swells. I have not been seasick though, for which I an extremely grateful. We have been having a wonderful time, going to a cooking class given by chef David, playing trivia (which Dennis excels at) and reading.

... back to the hotel for some afternoon tea and a dose to swimmers ear eardrops. The shuttle took us back to Sam’s at about 4pm and then it was time to jump in for the third dive of the day – Sam’s Macro Wall.

A Macro wall is a wall where lots of small critters like to hang out and live. The idea being that you float around as quietly as possible looking for tiny animals. Sam’s Macro Wall has quite a healthy population of Mandarin ...

... the water we were traversing still managed to have a deep sapphire blue colour to it, with the occasional spot of turquoise.

The dive and the site itself was good. As this was our first dive as a group and with our guide, the dive was fairly shallow and lacking in current. The coral was plentiful, the fish did fishy things and a couple of turtles were caught in the act of scratching their shells on some coral. ...

... all types of fish appeared from nowhere and they swarmed around the food. About ten minutes later, the guide, Chi, dives down with a bag of raw meat. He holds it till he's a good distance underwater and then lets the meat and blood out, then leaves for air. Seeing the blood dissipate in the ocean is unsettling. Another thing you should notice is the baitball at the bottom of the ocean floor... at first it looked like a ...

... to an entirely separate airport. We pulled up to T1 at 6:42 and I checked in with United to fly standby to Palau, with continuing service to Guam; and then onto Tokyo and Washington.

I paid the 550-peso departure tax (which, it turns out, can be paid in U.S. dollars or credit card in addition to local currency, so I didn’t have to set aside those 550 pesos after all). I settled into the Singapore Airlines SilverKris Lounge at 7:23 ...